CVE-2025-14874 — Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions in Nodemailer

CWE-703 — Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions9 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 75.15%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
NodemailerRedhat Advanced Cluster Management FOR KubernetesRedhat Ceph Storage
Timeline
PublishedDec 18

Description

A flaw was found in Nodemailer. This vulnerability allows a denial of service (DoS) via a crafted email address header that triggers infinite recursion in the address parser.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages5 packages

▶CVEListV5nodemailer/nodemailer< 7.0.11
▶NVDnodemailer/nodemailer< 7.0.11
▶npmnodemailer/nodemailer< 7.0.11

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
OSV
Duplicate Advisory: Nodemailer is vulnerable to DoS through Uncontrolled Recursion↗2025-12-18
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CVEList
Nodemailer: nodemailer: denial of service via crafted email address header↗2025-12-18
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OSV
CVE-2025-14874: A flaw was found in Nodemailer↗2025-12-18
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OSV
Nodemailer’s addressparser is vulnerable to DoS caused by recursive calls↗2025-12-01
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GHSA
Nodemailer’s addressparser is vulnerable to DoS caused by recursive calls↗2025-12-01
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
nodemailer: Nodemailer: Denial of service via crafted email address header↗2025-12-01
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Debian
CVE-2025-14874: node-nodemailer - A flaw was found in Nodemailer. This vulnerability allows a denial of service (D...↗2025
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🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2025-14874 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz↗
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CVE-2025-14874 — Nodemailer vulnerability | cvebase